The impressive part is real-time selective blurring with an empty wineglass. For the card trick... ask the guy who's been doing that bit for years what he thinks of your version - better yet see how it works if you get a chance to perform it for him.

Incorrect. I'll repeat (with emphasis): This can be done exactly as depicted roughly once in every 52 performances.

There is no "holy grail" of ACAAN and never will be - not under true test conditions (with the deck completely out-of-hand, no stooging or pre-show work, no constraints on the two selections, etc.). It's a bloody unicorn. But by all means... anyone interested in spending $2,400 on something else, more power to ya!

First, let me apologize: I believe I was the first to call this the holy grail of card magic when flogging my version, "Dekronomicon." The line has now been adapted by others, all claiming, as I did, that this is the method! See:

Second, the trick, as shown in the video, can be done every single time. It will never miss. The secret: the magician is the old lady, not the guy pretending to be the magician. As she shuffles, she glimpses or controls a card to a known position. Maybe that's why her face is blurred out--her glimpsing is too obvious.

Nah, I recognized her--that's Madam Babina Sabina, the Gypsy Enchantress. She does an act with a crystal ball, a deck of cards and a baboon. The baboon deals poker hands, then, when it gets really amped up, eats the deck and swallows the crystal ball.

Bob Farmer wrote:First, let me apologize: I believe I was the first to call this the holy grail of card magic when flogging my version, "Dekronomicon." The line has now been adapted by others, all claiming, as I did, that this is the method!

The "Any Card at Any Number" plot was called the "'holy grail' of card workers" in the ads for David Britland's Berglas book in 2002.